Fall EarthTalks will spotlight critical minerals as economic, security necessity
EarthTalks fall 2025 series, “Critical Minerals — A National Economic and Security Imperative,” will highlight the need for a reliable supply chain of critical minerals and the ongoing research to locate these resources.
Bridget Reheard named summer 2025 College of Earth and Mineral Sciences marshal
Bridget Reheard, a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, native, has been named the student marshal for the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ summer 2025 commencement ceremony
In disaster-prone Nepal, farmers sticking with agriculture amid climate risks
In Nepal how farmers perceive climate-related risks often leads them to double down on agriculture instead of exploring other livelihoods.
Imperfect underground processes help filter wastewater in Florida Keys
Algal blooms can upset delicate balances of marine and plant life in environments like the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, where researchers from Penn State examined nitrate and phosphate near a wastewater treatment facility in Marathon.
Q&A: Professor emeritus reflects on his research, teaching career in geosciences
Peter Heaney retired on June 30 after a 27-year career at Penn State
Graduate student earns NSF fellowship to study carbon in river systems
Valerie Smykalov, a doctoral student in the dual title biogeochemistry program, was recently awarded a three-year U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship to support her work studying carbon movement through freshwater systems.
Measuring how – and where – Antarctic ice is cracking with new data tool
A team led by researchers at Penn State developed a new method to evaluate cracks that destabilize ice shelves and accelerate loss of sea ice.
Eight graduate students receive U.S. National Science Foundation fellowships
Eight Penn State graduate students, including two from EMS, received U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships for the 2025-26 academic year.
In photos: Setting the stage for Penn State's commencement ceremonies
Each semester, staff across Penn State's colleges pull off what seems like an impossible task: Host the perfect ceremony to cap off every student's journey toward a degree. But commencement ceremonies are an undertaking that can't happen overnight. It takes the dedicated work of commencement coordinators and college staff to plan, prepare for and execute the biggest annual event at University Park.
Geosciences undergraduate uses research tools to solve mastodon mysteries
It took a series of events for things to fall into place. First, a mastodon had to live its life in the rolling terrain of Iowa, fossilize and be exposed by erosion in a nearby stream some 13,000 years later. Chris Widga, a vertebrate paleontologist at Penn State, had to find a home as director of the EMS Museum & Art Gallery. And Kaitlin Dasovich, a student in geosciences, had to develop a spark for undergraduate research.